I needed something that's going to go a little smooth for me with this Freightliner build looming in the background so I've decided to take on another "Demon II" project. I'll be taking the original gasser idea and slamming it to the ground for more of a Pro Street look. Paint scheme will be the original Street Demons theme with the flames on the sides.

Love Gassers. Wanted to move up to them after running Stock for a couple of years but couldn't afford it. Our recent move to our new home has brought us only a mile or two from Maple Grove Raceway. They've had a few events since we moved here and we can hear the burnouts. Think I'll be spending a little time over there.

This kit comes with a blown 426 Hemi but I don't like that nasty scoop coming up out of the hood. My aim is to fill in the hole in the hood and to change the induction up on the engine a bit. Gonna go with a Ramcharger 426 instead:

Just to let everybody know.............I am still working on this one. I've got the chassis mostly finished up except for the brake rotors up front and the exhaust system. I've also gotta tweak the toe in setting on the front end to keep the excessive toe in look from happening on the front wheels when fully assembled. I narrowed the rear axle to get the wider tires underneath the rear fenders and lowered the front suspension a good 1/8" to make it an even drop all the way around.

I did acquire the only PE piece made for this kit which will help the front end out ALOT. Sorry Revell..................that's good for OOB but it aint gonna cut it on this build.

I'm currently working on the engine which will take me a bit because of the detail I want to throw at this beast. I'll be robbing a lot of the parts except for the base engine block and transmission (which I'll leave OOB) from the Revell Hemi Dart kit. I was going to post some engine progress pics as well but the Spaz Stix clear doesn't work well with Model Master acrylic paint. Turned it white in the crevices so I'll be shooting another thin coat of orange on the block and re-coating the clear with Tamiya clear like I usually do the next time around. Learning curve complete.

Thanks Max. Actually yes it does have a supercharger but I just can’t go that big horn sticking up out of the hood. I wanted to go the max with a normally aspirated engine that I could and this specific engine is one helluva known powerhouse.

Perfect! Thanks Johnny and Mustang! When I was young, and at the local drags, a supercharged Willys gasser started up near me. Whistling, hissing with a volumous incessent chanting hi-speed idle. A blip of the throttle, Whooff!-- takeing off a bystanders hat and after that a second or two of almost complete silence before picking up that hair-raising idle once again. Etched in my brain! Mine would have to have a blower!

Well guys I've been working on this one on and off this week. Engine build is under way. I've decided to NOT go the blower route and go with a dual quad super stock motor. I'll be using the heads, rocker covers, intake and timing cover out of the 68 Hemi Dart kit (which I'll have to replace because I do want to build a Hemi Dart) and retaining the block and transmission from the Willys Street rod kit so as to keep the mods to fit the engine into the frame to a minimum. I had to modify the timing cover and intake slightly to get them to fit together on this engine block. I've been doing a lot of studying on this particular powerplant because I want to replicate the fuel delivery system and throttle linkage.

Here's the base build up as of earlier in the week:

and here we are with it as of now:

another thing that has caught my interest are the two piece aluminum wheels that are available these days. I actually acquired these wheels some time back but the rear wheels were so wide that I didn't have a tire wide enough to mount them in. So I took both of the wheel sleeves into a machine shop and had them cut the sleeve to the depth I wanted and "Walla!" , I've got myself a set of usable Pro Street wheels now. I'll have the wheel studs and lug nuts coming by next Thursday.

Really looking forward to seeing you do this build. I know it's probably going to blow my mind. I've gotten away from building cars over the years but watching your builds is getting the juices flowing again.

Really looking forward to seeing you do this build. I know it's probably going to blow my mind. I've gotten away from building cars over the years but watching your builds is getting the juices flowing again.

Just stopping by. You are forgiven for not supercharging. Love that Fram filter. Wheels are awesome!

Max

Thanks Max! I'm not much of a fan of supercharging street cars so you won't see many of my builds with them. I am, however, a fan of them on the strip and I do have one in the stash that I'd like to build. It'll be a while but I'll get to it.

I'm waiting on throttle linkage, spark plug wires and the like for any more progress on the engine.

Until then I'm marchin' on with the wheel construction. Since I've gotten the modifications to the rear wheel sleeves from my local machine shop , I've been waiting on the studs and nuts needed for the rear wheels.

I took the base wheel face and drilled all the lug nut holes out a little so the studs would fit.

Here's the lug nuts that I acquired from RB Motion: (if none of you have checked THAT site out then you need to. AMAZING stuff on there)

Lug nuts installed:

And here we are with the wheel face adhered onto the wheel sleeve and a light wash applied to the lug nuts to bring out the detail. Before installing the wheel face I hit the wheel sleeve with some steel wool and then followed that up with some Mothers Aluminum Polish to bring a nice shine to the sleeves. Each of the rear wheels were 8 pieces in total. Fronts were 4 pieces each.